German Armed Forces parade in Vienna, Austria after Nazis occupy it during the Anschluss (Unification of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi Regime). German officials in army vehicles drive past on streets Officials holding the Nazi flag in hand. Austrian civilians watch the parade and welcome the Germans. German officials march on street with vehicles parked alongside. Parade led by German leader Adolf Hitler. Buses on the street.
German Armed Forces parade in Vienna, Austria after Nazis occupation during the Anschluss (Unification of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi Regime). German officers in army vehicles drive past on streets Austrian crowd gives the Nazi salute and welcomes the German forces at the Hofburg palace grounds (Hofburg Vienna, Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna). German officials march on a street. Austrian civilian crowd gathered to watch the Nazi parade. Nazi flags hanging on buildings.
Film begins with animated map depicting conquest of the Balkans by the German-Italian Axis powers. With Southern flank now protected, Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, View of German troops goosestepping on parade in large formation. German troops being transported on parade in formation of wheeled open personnel carriers. Glimpse of upper part of Spasskaya Tower and clock overlooking Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of Soviet heavy industry complex with many smoke stacks. New farm tractors being moved on a railroad train. Scene segues into train carrying Soviet tanks, and then continues with scenes in a steel mill, a machine shop, a tank factory, and an artillery plant. Soviet troops parade bearing left shouldered rifles and singing as they march. Soviet civilian men are seen reporting for duty in the military and then training in hills overlooking a war plant complex. New Soviet recruits training with calisthenics and with small arms. A Soviet soldier speeds past the camera on a motorcycle and segues into a soldier on a horse jumping over a barrier, and then into several Soviet soldiers in uniforms, with rifles, diving into a swimming pool and swimming across it. Film ends showing Soviet troops in formation bringing their rifles from present arms position to pointing forward, as they march.
A training film titled 'Gas and Gas Mask' shows how lethal gas is disseminated from gas cylinders and artillery shells in Europe by Germany during World War 1. German soldiers wearing gas masks move out from a trench through a screen of smoke or gas.The soldiers in prone positions advance through poisonous gas smoke and carry square shields. American forces demonstrate use of liquid fire (flame thrower) like that used by German troops to spray liquid fire in the trenches. Condensed gas in a cylinder. The cylinder lying on the ground in a horizontal position. A U.S. Army soldier wearing a gas mask opens the knob of the cylinder. The gas comes out. A gas cloud is formed and moves in the direction of the wind. A soldier holds a German gas shell. A large number of gas shells are exploded. A U.S. soldier demonstrates two different forms of gas masks. The first is a basic scarf which holds a small pad of cotton soaked in soda solution. He puts on the scarf mask. Next he puts on a more advanced "Gas helmet" (early gas mask).
Trial of a German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. son of pilot Charles Lindbergh in Flemington, New Jersey. A ship underway at sea. The relatives of Isidor Fisch, a German Jewish friend and business associate of Hauptmann aboard a ship. They walk up a gangplank to board a boat. A view of the city. A close up of the relatives of Isidor Fisch arrive from Germany to testify at Hauptmann trial. The relatives come out of a building and get in a bus. The bus leaves. Cars and bus drive on a road. A man works at his home as the woman had gone for the testimony. A man peals vegetables. He cooks food. The women seated for the hearing. The man sits on a table and eats food. He plays with his dog. The man washes plates.
Arrival of displaced persons and refugees of World War 2 in New York, after the war. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. People greet relatives at the dock in New York. Two young men and a girl stand together and show the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. The tattoo numbers are A9496 on the young man with the hat, A13889 on the girl, and B3073 on the young man without a hat. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berel Gola (later called Bernard Gola) a 20 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he received the tattoo. A woman and a man holding a young girl stand. Women holding children stand by. A man holding a young child. People debarking from the ship. People crowd at the dock. They meet their relatives. People stand behind a fence. A woman greets her relative. An emotional woman cries when reunited with relatives.
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